This recoding library converts files between various coded character
sets and surface encodings. The library recognizes or produces more
than 300 different character sets and is able to convert files between
almost any pair. Most RFC 1345 character sets, and all `libiconv'
character sets, are supported.

/usr/share/doc/librecode0/copyright

This is the Debian prepackaged version of Free recode, a program that
converts files between character sets and usages. Free recode was
written by François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>.
This package was first put together by Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>.
It is currently maintained by Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>,
from sources obtained from:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recode/recode-3.6.tar.
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